St. Josaphats Church

Schedule of Divine Liturgies


WEEKENDS	SATURDAY EVENING	5:00PM	ENG
	SUNDAY	09:30AM	ENG & UKR
WEEK DAYS	TUES-THURS	8:00AM	UKR

Something you should know

Confessions:	Both daily and Sundays before all Liturgies
Baptisms:	By appointment. Sponsors must be practicing Catholics
Marriage:	Contact your Pastor at least six months in advance. Attendance at PreCana is required.
Religious Education:	Grades K-8 Sundays at 11:15 AM
Ministry to the Sick:	Kindly notify the rectory office about parishioners who are confined to home, hospital, or convalescent home, so that a priest might visit them.
Sunday Bulletin Deadline:	Notices should be phoned in or brought to the Parish Office no later than 12:00 noon on the Monday previous to the publication.
New Parishioners:	Welcome to St. Josaphats! Please stop by the Rectory to introduce yourselves and register. We look forward to meeting you.
Bequests:	In making out your will, kindly remember your church. St Josaphats Ukrainian Catholic Church of Rochester, NY is our legal title.

Something You Should Know

Church Events & Meetings

Community Events

Because of the heightened alert due to the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Josaphat’s Bingo is suspended until April 17, 2020
We thank you for your patronage and for helping us build a wonderful Bingo community.
We have decided to suspend our Bingo operations for the rest of the month of March. This is being done to protect the health of the players and our volunteers. Because of the long gestation period of the virus before symptoms show up (or even the lack of symptoms in those who carry the virus but are not affected) – we cannot risk exposing people to the potential hazard it represents.
As per the County Health Department’s request to limit gatherings of over 50 people – we believe our best path forward is to follow this guidance. We appreciate your understanding with our decision and hope to see you back in April when it is hopefully safer to return to normal group activities.

From the Pastor

ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕС! CHRIST IS RISEN!

THE SUNDAY OF THE BLIND MAN THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PASCHA

The gospel read on this Sunday tells us of the healing of the blind man by our Lord (John 9:1-38).  Jesus encountered a man who was born blind and applied a mixture of clay and spittle over his eyes.  Our Lord then commanded the man to wash in the pool of Siloam where his sight was restored.  The Pharisees objected to this healing by Jesus and expelled the man who had been blind from their midst.  He was later found by the Lord and professed his belief in Jesus as the Son of God.
The healing of the man born blind by our Lord adds to our understanding of the resurrection of our Savior during the Paschal season.  The theme of light so basic to Byzantine theological thought provides the link between the resurrection and the miracle commemorated on the fifth Sunday after Pascha.  The man healed by Jesus had never experienced sight in his lifetime.  He spent all his years in complete darkness.  Christ, the light of the world Who shone ever so more at the resurrection brought physical light to this man.  What a great experience this must have been!  Even more remarkable, the man born blind was illumined with the knowledge that Jesus Christ was indeed the Son of God.  The light of the risen Christ can penetrate the life of each of us.  Like the man born blind who received his sight, we must permit it to heal our infirmities and illumine our existence.  We must turn from the darkness of sin and bask in the radiant light of the risen Lord.

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ВІДВІДИНИ ХВОРИХ

If you or a family member are admitted to a hospital for any reason and wish to have a priest come to visit, please notify the parish office. Recent federal privacy laws do not allow hospitals to notify the parish if you are admitted. It is the responsibility of the patient or family to notify the parish office.

Ukrainian Catholic Retreat

Members of Saint Josaphats Ukrainian Catholic Church have a long history of participation in Retreats. For many years men and women of the Parish participated in Men’s Retreats or Women’s Retreats conducted by Roman Rite priests of the Redemptorist Order.

St. Josaphats Festival

The St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Festival was established in 1973 as an effort to introduce Ukrainian Arts and Crafts, Ukrainian food, and Ukrainian music and dance to the Greater Rochester community. Since its